Upon learning of his death, WWE chairman Vince McMahon tweeted that Piper was "one of the most entertaining, controversial and bombastic performers ever in WWE beloved by millions of fans around the world."

Piper, whose real name was Roddy Toombs, is a member of the WWE Hall of Fame, and was one of the core members of the '80s-era WWE (then known as the WWF). Born in Saskatchewan, Canada, Piper competed in the very first Wrestlemania, working a faux-Scottish angle in a tag-team match (along with Mr. Wonderful Paul Orndorff) against Hulk Hogan and Mr. T, and quickly became one of the sport's most hated villains.

Piper's rivalries with Hogan, Jimmy Snuka and even Cyndi Lauper set the tone for the WWF, helping the wrestling organization achieve the nationwide prominence that it enjoys to this day.

Welcome to Friday, everyone! It's time for the Friday Five episode of Grandstanding, where we hit each other with questions from across the world of sports and pop culture. We begin with some talk about the baseball season trade deadline, and from there dive into our questions:

• What trade from your hometown team devastated you the most as a kid, or as an adult?

• What are the five most hated teams in sports? The Yankees? Alabama? Duke basketball? Let's decide!

• If you had to run a franchise, like Vin Baker and a Starbucks, which franchise would it be?

Beijing, China has won the right to host the 2022 Winter Olympics in a vote over Almaty, Kazakhstan.

Beijing hosted the 2008 Summer Olympics, and becomes the first city to host both Summer and Winter Games. China's representative city defeated Kazakhstan's by a 44-40 vote.

“Just as with the Beijing 2008 Summer Games, the Olympic family has put its faith in Beijing again to deliver the athlete-centred, sustainable and economical Games we have promised,” Beijing Olympic officials said in a statement. “This will be a memorable event at the foot of the Great Wall for the whole Olympic family, the athletes and the spectators that will further enhance the tremendous potential to grow winter sports in our country, in Asia and around the world.”

____ Jay Busbee is a writer for Yahoo Sports. Contact him at jay.busbee@yahoo.com or find him on Twitter.

William "Refrigerator" Perry, one of the most famous NFL players of the 1980s, is auctioning off the Super Bowl ring he won after the 1985 season with the Chicago Bears.

Heritage Auctions is overseeing the auction at this week's National Sports Collectors' Convention in Ilinois, and bidding is available online. The starting bid is $16,000, and the auction site has indicated that the ring could fetch as much as $1 million. The ring is estimated at a size 25, the largest Super Bowl ring ever produced by Jostens. [UPDATE: The ring was sold for more than $203,000.]

The Bears decimated the Patriots 46-10 in that Super Bowl, a game in which Perry scored a touchdown. Perry played 10 seasons in the NFL, the vast majority of those with the Bears. He has fallen on harder times of late. In 2008, he was diagnosed with Guillain–Barré Syndrome, a disorder involving inflammation of the nerves. He has suffered financial difficulties as well as health problems.

The NFL has upheld Tom Brady's four-game suspension, largely because Brady refused to turn over his cell phone, and all hell's breaking loose. We spend a good 20 minutes chewing over this from every angle, including the "Patriots are cheaters" and "Tom Brady should've just turned over his phone!" angles.

We also consider who wins and who loses in this whole scenario, and whether Jimmy Garoppolo is ready for his close-up. Finally, we look at the options available for both Brady and the NFL going forward. This story is by no means over.

"I've got the greatest job in the world, man," Watt said at the event. "I get to come out here and play a game every day and I get to do stuff like this. I mean, I realize how fortunate I am to be in the situation I'm in and I realize that someday, it's all going to end. I don't know why, but this year, I realized it more than ever, the fact that someday, this is all going to be over and someday, I'm not going to have all these great opportunities that I have, so I'm just trying to take advantage of everything I can and enjoy every moment I can."

The city of Boston is no longer a candidate to host the 2024 Olympic Games.

Boston had been the United States' selection in the ongoing bidding process for the 2024 Summer Olympics, but on Monday, Boston's mayor threw the brakes on the city's bid plans. Soon afterward, the United States Olympic Committee announced it is ending its bid to bring the Games to the city.

Boston mayor Marty Walsh had said he cannot automatically commit to signing the host city bid should Boston win the right to host the Games. Walsh expressed concern about a provision which requires the host city to cover any cost overruns, a requirement which could prove financially burdensome to Boston.

"I cannot commit to putting the taxpayers at risk," Walsh said in a Monday morning press conference. While Boston's Olympic organizing group had pledged an insurance policy would cover cost overruns, Walsh said his office has been unable to conclude whether such a policy would be feasible and would sufficiently protect the city.